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Zhou Weihui

    January 4, 1973

    Zhou Weihui is a significant Chinese writer whose work frequently explores themes of decadence and censorship. Her writing is characterized by a bold examination of the lives of the younger generation in modern China. Through her literary style and focus on controversial subjects, she has emerged as a voice for a new generation of Chinese women, with her work resonating internationally.

    Zhou Weihui
    Shanghai-Baby
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    Shanghai Baby
    Marrying Buddha
    • 2005

      Marrying Buddha

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.4(681)Add rating

      Her second semi-autobiographical novel of desire and lust in a new city far from China...According to the author, Marrying Buddha is the continuation of her first novel Shanghai Baby, the international bestseller which was banned in China and catapulted her to fame and notoriety in the country of her birth. As in Shanghai Baby, the protagonist is Coco, a young successful female novelist who decides to leave Shanghai for New York. Coco embarks on the next leg of life's journey, a road that leads her through love, desire, and spiritual awakening. In Manhattan she meets Muju. Muju and Coco share a deep, intense passion, experimenting and exploring their desires at every available opportunity. But into this relationship enters glamorous, wealthy and impossibly urbane New Yorker Nick. And when as a result her relationship with Muju is threatened, Coco returns to China, to the tiny temple-studded island of Putu, the place of her birth. It is on Mount Putu where Coco finds some inner peace - but once back in Shanghai she is visited by both Muju and Nick and is once again caught up in the intensity and passion of the two relationships. After both men leave Coco discovers she is pregnant, but has no idea of whether it is Muju or Nick who is the father...

      Marrying Buddha
    • 2001

      Shanghai Baby

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.0(162)Add rating

      Der erotische Untergrundroman aus China: Als die Schriftstellerin Coco dem Berliner Mark begegnet, lässt sie sich mit ihm auf eine wilde Beziehung ein, die ihr ganzes Leben auf den Kopf stellt

      Shanghai Baby
    • 1999